Reply #34: True story. [View All]

[Sapphocrat]

Back in my corporate days, we needed a new department VP. The hiring process was always quite egalitarian (skills and experience were no more important than a good fit with company culture), and I was usually involved in the first round of screening interviews.

This dude out of Central Casting for a bad 1960s movie (comb-over, ugly green jacket, and a loud, guffawing, slap-on-the-back sort of personality) comes in. At one point, I ask one of my favorite interview questions: "What would you say has been your greatest accomplishment in life? Professional or personal, doesn't matter."

Guy doesn't hesitate a second -- he even puffs out his chest: "My wife!"

Not even his marriage, but his wife. As if he'd created her or something. Or landed her like a fish.

Worse than the wife comment was him calling my (female) manager "Honey" on the way out.

Can you imagine a LGBT person doing anything like that? We'd be lucky to get out of the building alive.

(Of course, he didn't get the job.)